Sunday, May 13, 2012

My students are doing so well with their reading! They need some challenges to help finish the year!! I am working on long vowel stations for them. Here is a Roll, Say, Keep Freebie if you also need some new and challenging stations for your class!!! You can pick it up at Teacher's Notebook or Teachers Pay Teachers. I hope you enjoy it! If you have time, please leave me feedback :)

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Decomposing numbers, a new common core standard, was a hard concept for my class when I introduced it. I made a station for them as reinforcement to help it "sink in."

Once they understand this, I have them do the next station which looks like this:

My class quickly understood _ + _ = 2. However, it was very difficult to rewrite the sentence and decompose the number to say 2= _ + _. It took many days of practice and reteaching for several of my students. I am going to make more stations to have them ready for next year so we hopefully master the concept faster/easier :)

If you are interested, I have my actvities in my Spring Into Addition packet at TpT and TN.The packet also has:lily pads with frog ten frames from 1-20 for bulletin boards/visual aids or write the room activities,dice games and tic-tac-toe games,and fluency pages.